Sunday, August 23, 2015

AFL Power Rankings: Round 21 2015

Ladder
leaders the Fremantle Dockers have now fallen to seventh on the rankings. While
the Dockers got off to a good start in 2015, the rankings say that they have
been barely better than average over their past half of a season, accumulating
just three ranking points.One of the points of doing these rankings is
that ladder positions can be misleading; for example, Hawthorn was ranked highly in
mid-2012
even though it sat outside the eight, and the Hawks ended the season as Grand
Final favourites. On the other hand, Fremantle’s form heading into a finals
series has been misleading before, just two years ago it fell to sixth
in the rankings in the final round before having a great September. Personally I
think that while the Dockers are a tough proposition at home I still wouldn’t
mind my club playing them in the first week of the finals.